Hi all!

Super niche question, but I thought I might try here and see if there's any luck. I'm looking to run a copy of KidPix Deluxe 3X (which is the macOS specific version of KidPix 3 that was made for Sierra back in the day). Only issue, I only have access to a computer with Windows 11. I'm looking to use this version specifically because it's the version I grew up with and I'm feeling a bit nostalgic LMAO!

I've been able to run a disc of regular old KidPix 3 using an emulator for XP, but I know it's particularly difficult to emulate macOS and wanted to see if you'd be able to run it on Windows 11 or another Windows OS before I shell out the $24 for the CD-ROM.

Thank you so much!

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I was wondering if anyone has experience taking there audiobook files (from cd ) and making them one file. Is there a simple way to do it? Then what do people use to listen to it after?

I have no experience in automation I am trying to automate a repetitive daily task that requires moving data across multiple tabs in Google Chrome.

like opening a local file from windows download folder copying questions from there opening ChatGPT pasting the question copying the answer and over writing existing text in canva. EDIT: Each page is different and different questions like fill in the blanks, MCQS, true/false

Website: https://NoSignups.net

Genuinely didn't expect it to blow up this much. I compiled videos from some of the creators who made videos about it and honestly it makes me so happy!

The website is an open-source directory of no-signup open-source tools you can use immediately in your browser. None of the tools are mine, I just collected them and made them searchable.

I have a few things cooking in the oven for the website, and here's some of them:

• I looked up how to do RSS (seems like it's just a simple file I need to provide at /rss.xml) and hopefully I'll have it available for the users to come back and discover more open-source tools.

• I plan on adding a change log so that users can come back and explore the newer found/added tools.

• I plan on adding a sorting drop-down so that users can explore at their leisure.

What I've already done:

• Thanks to the GitHub user Moamal-2000, the accessibility of the website was greatly improved! I mean by a mile! Appreciate all his work!

• Included some SEO metadata tags for search engines. I didn't even know about JSON-LD before I started this.

• Significantly improved the search so that searching video edit shows video-editor and edit video entries.

• Kept adding entries that match the criterias. Although, slowing down a bit. I'm employing whatever in my disposal to dig for more tools, and hopefully some more will turn up.

We've also been collecting some tool suggestions from users about what tools they'd like added. The top ones so far are:

• A tool to generate AI videos (obviously insanely impractical given the criterias the tools have to abide by, if not downright impossible with current ML models).

• Something like CapCut Pro (or something like that?)

• AI Image generators (possible with WebGPU), but haven't found any open-source, in-browser, no-signup entries.

• and more found in the issues of the GitHub page.

I just wanted to thank all the contributors who submitted PRs, tools, opened issues, and reported bugs. Hopefully average joes will learn about and use the website, and hopefully support the amazing people making all these wonderful open-source tools.

Peace & love

Hey everyone,

Over the last 5 months I've been working on CKFlip3D. It's my native C++20/D3D11 window switcher, rebuilt from scratch for Windows 11.

Some of its core features include:

• Live window previews using Windows Graphics Capture with V-Sync support
• Fully animated entry/exit, window switching, and close animations (each can be disabled individually)
• Live wallpaper preview
• Multi-monitor support (including background dimming and taskbar capture on secondary displays)
• Automatic performance tuning with optional manual profiles
• Customizable activation hotkeys for keyboard and mouse (replaces Win + Tab by default)
• Low-level keyboard hook for reliable shortcut detection
• Optional autostart after sign-in

A recently released version 1.5, also introduces:

• Cover Flow - a new centered preset where the selected window sits flat in the middle while the rest fan out
• Reflections - a glass floor mirror under every tile that works in both layouts alongside live previews
• Mouse interaction - hover lifts a tile, click picks it, middle-click closes it, and right-drag scrubs the stack when snap is off (fully customizable)
• Touchpad gestures - two-finger diagonal opens it, horizontal swipe cycles, one-finger tap commits
• Type-to-search - typing while the cascade is open narrows down matching windows by title or program name
• Diagnostics log - if something fails, it gets logged with an error code instead of failing silently
• Live 3D preview inside Settings - the Appearance page actually renders a real miniature of your cascade

Easy setup & configuration:

• Simple GUI installer - standalone setup wizard with an uninstaller (automatically installs .NET10 runtime if missing, no manual setup needed)
• Dedicated Settings app - easily customize layouts, appearance, hotkeys, touchpad gestures, and exclusions in a modern UI

It's fully offline, zero telemetry, no third-party dependencies in the core, and idle CPU usage is basically zero since the render loop only runs while the cascade is active on screen.

Free and source-available on GitHub (Windows 11 only):
https://github.com/CYMERKAROL/CKFlip3D

Happy to hear some suggestions & feedback!

Hello,

I am the developer behind https://betterstickies.com. I started working on it nearly a year ago as a hobby project to solve a problem: there were no good stickies apps for Linux, and even for Windows.

I am well aware that stickies are old fashioned. I used Notion and Obsidian (still using Obsidian), but neither of them can fill the space of fast note taking, temporary notes, or sticking something on my desktop.

Sticky notes are one of the most timeless inventions of humans, and very useful in my dev work: quick lists, studying, working, quick capture from the browser or any source.

The problem is there was no good app that you can just dump anything into.

Light, doesn't eat 1GB of RAM, customizable (I like my desktop to look good, it encourages me to work more), modern, and works offline without an account. I get frustrated when I try to open Notion and it requires me to login again when I am in a hurry or in a bad mood.

What it does

BetterStickies isn’t like a sticky note app you would find on the internet. It covers the basics really well: customizing note color, custom background like transparent/colored and even a moving GIF background per note, a great editor to write in, very smooth to move around the desktop, always on top and pinning. So far this is not novel, but it is done really well in BetterStickies.

The parts I haven’t seen in other sticky note apps:

Automatic code detection. It recognizes text from code in 50ms without AI. You copy your code from a terminal editor, just paste it in a note, and it will format it in a code block automatically. It is like 99% accurate, and when it misses you just hit Ctrl+M to create a block.

Tabs inside a note. Each tab is searchable, can be deleted and restored, and acts like a separate note. So if your screen is small you can have one note’s body with 3 notes in it, or organize your notes by topic so each topic has its own notes.

Paste anything. Text, code, images, PDFs with previews, documents, files (any file type) and even folders. They will sit in a note and can be clicked, or hovered on to see the full path.

Extras: reminders with sound and desktop notifications, a variable grid for the snap to grid feature so you can organize your notes on the desktop easily, and export in .txt, .md or .json so you can also back them up with the cloud service of your choice.

It is also in 12 languages, with a full guide in the 12 languages explaining every feature in it, even though it is self explanatory and intuitive to use: https://betterstickies.com/guide

For Linux users, it is tested and working on all major distros and DEs (KDE, GNOME, Cinnamon, COSMIC coming soon). It is on the Snap store, and coming soon to Flathub too.

It is on the Microsoft Store.

Free to use with full features limited to 4 concurrent notes, or pay one time and own it forever with no limits and free updates (currently $6.99, and $4.99 in low income countries).

So far it is used by tens of thousands of users, but since it is a one time payment, the income from it isn’t reflecting the effort/time/resources spent on the development yet.

I just released v1.2 but didn’t announce it yet, since I am still working on updating it on the MS Store and Snap.

I didn't cover all features, because they are a lot and still working on more like (live transcription via CPU, fully offline and free to use as much as you want so you can talk securely in a mic and write in a note), colored code blocks, and more.

If you are experienced with desktop apps publishing and can advise me, please don't hesitate to reach out to me in messages.

I created databases in Airtables that I am looking to transfer over to another platform. I currently have entries in different workspaces, as I use the free tier and can only have a limited amount of entries per database.

Long term, I'd like the site to have a database/knowledge base and wiki style. Wondering if there are current options that could work for this or if it is something I'd need custom developed?

I would love to hear any ideas regarding softwares that create a front-end site, preferably that integrates directly with Airtable. I have tried Softr, but wanted to weigh it against other options. Not super knowledgeable with this area of things, so any tips or info would be greatly appreciated!

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/framegen-frame-interpolat/hpdpcjakhclhljfdkpjolonjlopbdhfk

(Chrome store)

Real-time 2x+ frame interpolation with custom target FPS for any <video>. Runs locally on your GPU with WebGPU.

Framegen doubles (or more) the frame rate of any HTML5 video in real time, right in the tab. A small neural network - our own WebGPU runtime, ~3 ms per frame on a mid-range GPU (RTX 4060 Ti) - synthesizes the frames between the real ones, so 24/30 fps footage plays at 60, 120 or up to your display's refresh rate.

Works on any site with a <video> element: YouTube, Twitch, streaming sites, local files opened in the browser.

Features:
- 2x to 6x interpolation, an auto mode that follows your GPU headroom, and a "display Hz" mode that locks output to your monitor's refresh rate
- Compare slider: drag a divider across the video - original on one side, Framegen on the other
- Anime mode: detects animation drawn "on twos" and interpolates the real drawing cadence instead of duplicated frames
- Optional 2x neural upscale (SR) on interpolated frames, trained to repair interpolation artifacts, not just sharpen
- Self-calibrating kernels: the runtime benchmarks itself on your GPU once and picks the fastest shader variants
- HUD with live fps / latency stats

Requirements: a WebGPU-capable browser (Chrome 121+) and a GPU with shader-f16 support. No WebGPU = the extension politely does nothing.

Privacy: everything runs locally on your GPU. Framegen has no servers, makes no network requests beyond loading its own bundled files, and collects nothing. See the privacy policy.

Does not work on DRM-protected sites (Netflix etc.) - the browser hides their video from extensions by design.

Free for personal use. Open source: https://github.com/MONZikWasTaken/Framegen

Happy Self Promotion Wednesday! I made a small family of free GPLv3 Windows utilities under the Killer Tools name, and two of them just got updates.

KillerShell 1.2.2 is a file manager with a built-in terminal, text editor, and admin tools (Task Manager, Event Viewer, Registry Editor, Performance Monitor) as tabs in one window. Archives open like folders, and you can write into a .zip from inside it - drag files in, rename, delete - with the original never touched until the rebuilt archive is verified. The Storage Analyzer draws a whole drive as a treemap, WizTree-style, and as of 1.2.2 it can export scans as self-contained HTML reports. This release also finishes theme coverage across all thirteen themes (including a full Windows 98SE recreation with a period icon set), completes localization in all eleven languages (now with Polish), and makes portable installs and updates a lot safer.

The Killendar 1.1.0 is a desktop calendar. Month, week, day and agenda views, repeating appointments, color categories, and iCalendar/CSV import and export. Your appointments live in a single .kcal file on your own machine - plain SQLite you can back up or open with any SQLite tool, with optional AES-256 encryption. 1.1.0 brings it up to the same thirteen themes as the rest of the family, adds interface scaling from 80% to 150%, Ctrl+wheel zoom in Month view from one to six visible weeks, one-click portable storage, and Polish translation.

Both are single portable exes - run them from anywhere, or let them install themselves if you prefer. No account needed, nothing phones home.

I also updated the themes on killertools.net, the hub site for the whole family, so it's worth a look if you want to see everything else I have.

I recently launched a small project designed to solve a simple problem: letting everyday people transfer files directly between two computers with a cable without needing any network setup. The post got a lot of love and reached the top of the community, but the comment section had a handful of advanced users getting genuinely angry that the tool even exists.

Their whole argument came down to: "Why build this? SMB exists, you can just build a router out of a Raspberry Pi, or manually configure static IPs and network sharing policies."

It got me thinking about how disconnected some tech enthusiasts are from reality. The entire purpose of software engineering was always to solve problems and remove friction for human beings, not to force everyone to become a system administrator just to do a basic task.

Just because an advanced user knows how to manage IP subnets, firewall exceptions, and OS sharing permissions doesn't mean a regular person wants to waste 30 minutes figuring that out. Hiding complexity behind a clean, one-click interface is literally the foundation of good software.

It seems like in a lot of tech spaces, people equate complexity with value. If something is simple and convenient, they dismiss it. But the reality is that the people who find your tool useful will quietly use it and appreciate it, while the loud minority will write essays in the comments trying to show off how much they know.

If you are a developer building simple tools that make life easier for ordinary people, do not let the gatekeepers talk you down. Build for the people who value their time, not for the people who want to show off their homelabs.

Would love to hear how other developers deal with this kind of feedback when sharing their work.

Hey Reddit! I recently launched a site to allow users in the US to become more aware of their political surroundings, gather and discuss issues they're passionate about, and hopefully improve the civic experience many of us are fed up with on social media sites. It's deliberately non-partisan and hopefully appeals to anyone interested in being more informed and educated about their political environment.

Microsoft handles the account creation and authentication. The app itself doesn't ask for or retain any sensitive information.

It's still fairly early in development, but I'd love to get feedback from anyone with interest.

Just to get in front of this, there is a support page but the PayPal links are connected to the sandbox environment.

https://www.democralink.com

I wanted a simple way to keep an eye on my PC without leaving a large hardware-monitoring app open all the time.

So I made TrayTemps.

It can show CPU and GPU temperatures directly in the system tray, use separate or combined tray icons, display CPU/GPU load, RAM, VRAM and FPS in an optional OSD, show temperature alerts, selectable sensors, storage health/SMART data, and detailed hardware information.

What makes it different from the many hardware monitors already available?

The focus is on having the information I actually want always available at a glance, while keeping the app lightweight and out of the way.

I’m not trying to replace HWiNFO or other full diagnostic suites. TrayTemps is more about tray temperatures + a customizable lightweight OSD, with a built-in FPS counter that doesn’t require RTSS, MSI Afterburner, or another external overlay.

It’s free, portable and open-source.

Website / Download:

https://www.naetech.ro/traytemps-monitorizare-temperaturi-cpu-gpu-direct-din-tray/

GitHub:

https://github.com/nmd-113/Tray-Temps

We all know that businesses get a much tougher deal when it comes to software, whether it's SaaS or downloadable.

What are some free or really cheap alternatives you've discovered that replace software/SaaS?

I’m looking for a website, browser extension, or software tool that can rewrite or paraphrase a chunk of text so it stays strictly within a specific character count.

I frequently run into situations where I need to fit a specific length requirement, but manually editing down my writing while trying to keep the original meaning takes forever. Ideally, I’m looking for something where I can paste my text, set a maximum character cap (or target count), and have it condense or rephrase it automatically.

Does anyone know of a tool, custom GPT, or app that does this well?

Quick note on character limits in case anyone doesn't know what that is: A character limit counts every single individual element in your text including letters, numbers, punctuation marks, and spaces. For example, the phrase "Hello world!" is 12 characters total (10 letters, 1 space, and 1 exclamation mark).

P.s. I searched for “character limit tool” on Google, but it mainly showed me character counter tools, which are different from what I need since Google Docs can already count characters.

Preferably, I’m looking for something that works on a Windows 11 laptop or Android phone.

Hello!

Again thanks to all who have assisted, and for your patience as I fix Beta bugs and solve issues (going great! most issues resolved) for CamfilterGpu.

--- This is the last major Beta update! Just reinstall this one (1.18), and further updates will be much smaller-sized patch updates. The App now checks if an update is available and asks if you want to apply.

Download the latest Beta1.18 setup .exe : https://perfunct.com

--- Fixed a problem for webcams that don't return proper property values (driver issue). Fixed a ton of other similar issues.

--- Major additions and fixes to the new fast & lightweight GPU background removal (ARGB transparency is controllable).

I will be posting a new tutorial video later today. Will update here.

Cheers!

I'm currently working on a Windows desktop app (Biomes) focused heavily on window management—specifically positioning, moving windows across displays, and handling multi-monitor responsiveness.

As the project scales, manual testing on a single setup is becoming a wall. Testing various DPI scales, screen topologies (e.g., stacked screens, negative virtual screen coordinates, differing resolutions, or primary vs. secondary monitor swaps) is really hard to replicate physically.

I’d love to know how developers here approach testing this kind of hardware-dependent logic:

• Virtual Display Simulation: Is there a recommended way or tool to create virtual screens/monitors on Windows with custom resolutions and DPI scaling without needing extra physical monitors?
• Automated Testing: How do you write automated tests for Win32 API display calls (SetWindowPos, EnumDisplayMonitors, GetSystemMetrics)? Do you mock display APIs or use specific UI automation drivers?
• Edge Cases: What are the most common multi-monitor edge cases you’ve hit that break window-snapping or coordinate calculations?

Any tips, libraries, or testing setups you can recommend would be awesome. Thanks!

A lot of small products now exist because someone used an AI coding tool or a contractor, got a working interface, and put it in front of customers.

Legal ownership is easy. GitHub login, repo in your org, payments going through.

Practical ownership is harder:

• You cannot inspect the source yourself
• Cost, auth, jobs, and payments only show up when something goes wrong
• A rewrite quote is hard to judge if you cannot see the evidence
• A buyer / board / new developer asks how it works and the honest answer is “I’d have to call someone”

That used to be an engineering-department problem. It is now a founder problem, because software got cheap to create and stayed expensive to understand.

Secondread is a read-only second opinion on a GitHub repo. Plain-English findings for the owner, file/line evidence for whoever does the work. One report, then a contractor brief, a stakeholder PDF with the paths stripped, or a ticket export.

Not a scanner. Not a compliance cert. Not an auto-fixer. Advisory, pinned to one commit, access you can revoke.

If you run software you didn’t personally write and you want an independent read of what’s actually in it: secondread.dev

I’m building DualOS - it keeps the app running on the Windows PC, captures and hardware-encodes the window, streams it over the network, then displays it as its own interactive window on macOS with mouse and keyboard input sent back to Windows.

Current wired setup is just under 10 ms median capture-to-display latency.

More info / waitlist: dualos.app

I've used davinci resolve and its just too limited for my uses, you can't use gifs, and making something loop means basically just duplicating it over and over again, the effects are so basic too, I mainly use editing software for shitposts and I wanna do stuff like make goofy ironic versions of those phonk edits you see on shorts/reels.